The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-10-27
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New Berne Journal: MI. w. J. Bell
has made one acre in cabbage pay bet
|. ter than two in cotton. =: g.. - =
Newton Enterprise: Newton town
ship raised between. forty and fifty
thousand bushels of wheat annually.
Person County Courier: A company
will shortly begin the manufacture of
buckets, barrels, ETC., at Morganton. ;
Tarboro SoutAerner; In December
the farmers of this county have resol-
we'd to hold in this place a Farmers
Institute.
Piedmont Press: The PROGRESSIVE
FARMER favors the appointment of a
Railroad Commission by the State. So
do the people.
High Point Enterprise: In Haywood
county last Friday a young white boy,
aged fourteen, named Posey Briggs,
committed suicide by hanging himself
from a tree. -,
V1dette: One million dollars worth
of property has been erected in Ashe-
vile since the beginning of 81. There
is no mistake about the progress of
Our Mountain City"
W. N. c.. Baptist: Mrs. Walker is
the most successful farmer in Georgia.
She owns and manages several thou
sand acres of land, which this year will
yield her a profit Of $1,000
Raleigh Chronicle: MI. M. E. Rob-
inson, of the u. S., Fish Commission,
is in Raleigh for the purpose of max.
ing distributions of carp. He will in
the next few days express about 800
carp to various sections of the State.
Goldsboro Argus: The notorious
"moonshiner" Nal Robertson, who has
defed the officers of the law and
eluded arrest for 10 these many years,
has at length been captured by MI. HI.
P. Dortch and is now in jail in this
city. ..:..
Webster's Weekly: The deepest gold
mine in North Carolina is Gold Hill,
in Rowan county, which is down no
feet. Opened about 1924, it was for
years the great mine Of this part Of
the world, and has a record of over
$4,000, 600.
ASHORE Courier: So far as the
Courier has been able to find out pub
lie sentiment, u people are decidedly
in favor of working our prisoners on
the public roads. The commissioners
will decide the matter at their next
meering. E~
Greensboro Patriot: The city of
Charlotte has cancelled it's contract
with the Water Works Company ow-
ing to the failure of the latter to meet
requirements, and will invite bids for
erection of new works, to be owned
by the city.
The Dunn Slgn6oard has discovered
a hybrid cotton growing in Harnett
county, that averages so bolls of cot
ton to the stalk where the common
cotton has only 7 or s. This new cot
Jul udS leaves Slullldr- 10 OKLA. SCU
per bushel have been offered for the
seed.
Asheville Citizen: Col Tate says he
will begin Nov. the lst the grading of
the railroad from Shelby to Morgan
ton, which will soon be extended to
Cranbury. He has the necessary
funds to do the grading and arrange
ments completed for ironing the anne
It will be a very important road.
The Danbmry Reporter says: Mr. Nc
Rae, who is mining for silver south of
the mountain a few miles west from
Danbury, was in town last week and
says that he has gone down fifty feet
on one vein, which is two feet wide,
and that some of the ore as tested by
a Washington City chemist, assays
ffty=two per cent. silver. " =
Wilmington Star: The Rockingham
Rocket is still giving testimony as to the
very remarkable curative power of the
Elerbe Spring, some ten miles or so
we believe, from that, town The eyi.